The Parnu Chronicle
Squad5 Apr 2027
Nikita Teniste decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match3 Apr 2027
Parnu march on in the cup
Sillamae Kalev are out and Parnu go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match31 Mar 2027
Martin Klavan sends Parnu through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Martin Klavan obliged against Sillamae Kalev. 2‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Parnu.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Liliu Puri breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Apr 2027
8 matches without a win for Parnu
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Parnu are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Apr 2027
Silver Pikk hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A first appearance Rauno Puri will want to forget — 5.39
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.39, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Rustam Vazitdinov in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Rustam Vazitdinov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rustam Vazitdinov, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Artur Baranov
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Silver Pikk
- Player ratings Hendrik Tamm takes the honours